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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gallina" data-source="post: 1316138" data-attributes="member: 70029">then here was a perfectly reasonable reply to your posts on the 'other' thread It is actually one of the most unreasonable replies I read and terribly flawed.You direct us to a document produced by hunters to support their views and refute all others. This you inform us is the ‘whole’ and ‘actual’ truth of what is really happening in Malta.Actually it is. It obviously revolves around the issues affecting hunters and I posted the link for the benefit of those that maybe do not know both sides of the story. Its based on documented facts that cannot be denied.On the other hand you believe all anti-hunting articles, documents and postings here are either completely misguided or just lies to feed anti-hunting sentiments.No, not all. Its not the anti-hunting articles, documents and postings that i'm talking about but mainly those lies and exaggerations regarding illegal hunting that are being used to tarnish Malta's reputation with the public at large to reach the final aim of making the island a hunt-free zone. An aim to which you signed up for in your petition. Nobody ever said illegal hunting doesn't happen over here.'Dear Commissioner Dimas, Many concerned professional and amateur ornithologists, and not least ordinary bird and nature lovers in the European Union and elsewhere, are increasingly in doubt as to whether the EU will retain its firm stance on the matter of phasing out all bird hunting and trapping on Malta.' FAT CHANCE! And as if the EU ever took the stance of wanting to phase out all bird hunting in Malta. The petition is badly worded so whoever is responsible please take noteI really don’t think you can be critical here of others especially so, when you yourself are happy to so completely believe in one side of the argument and not the other! You can reason with people here, but do not expect folk here to be so gullible as to simply dismiss their concerns based on a document written by hunters for hunters.Well now you have it on a document published by the anti-hunters (Bird Life) for the anti-hunters. I'm sure yv read what they reported. 55 protected birds shot down in the entire raptor migration season. Whilst still condemnable this is nowhere near the hundreds and even thousands that you were led to believe were being gunned down.I think I've made my case. Yours and all the anti-hunting lobby's has been torn apart by your very own BL report.I'm sure Stavros Dimas will take note of it.Fight illegal hunting all you like, i'm with you there. Don't lie about its extent to satisfy your ulterior motive of abolishing legal hunting because that's where you begin to step on my toes.</blockquote>

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